Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

New research shows that baobab tree flowers have adapted to meet the needs of either bats or moths, and without these ...

A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness ...

Bamboo, palm, and banana trees look and act like trees, but are actually closer to grasses in how they grow because—unlike trees—their stems do not grow wider over time. However, due to their towering ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

My father always said that Oct. 10 was the precise day when the Florida air shifted ever so slightly with a tease of fall. Every year on that day, he’d lay some wood in the fireplace and strike a ...

The golden oyster mushroom, originally from Asia, is spreading in Wisconsin and across the United States, pushing out native ...

I was reading a book when I came across the word ‘sniggered’. I picked up my phone to check its meaning. I ignored a few ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...